Fudeko Tanaka Movies

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

1950s Japanese drama.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Japanese drama film.

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

1962 Japanese movie

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese drama.

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...